non fiction
1 min
Literary Barbs
Valerie Hotchkiss
Valerie Hotchkiss
On the boast of writer Jack Kerouac, who claimed that he never re-read a manuscript after having once put words on paper, Truman Capote quipped: "that's not writing, that's typing."
Oscar Wilde on Henry James: "Mr. James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
Mark Twain on Poe and Austen: "To me Edgar Allan Poe's]prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read Poe's prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death."
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